Roommates, Bad Dates and Great Mates: Sex

ROOMMATES, BAD DATES AND GREAT MATES
Sex “. . .and it was good”

Hello everyone, and welcome once again to The Journey. It’s great to see you on the night of the blizzard and you are out here in 27 inches of snow on the ground, so we might as well talk about sex. Well, that’s what we are going to do. We are kicking off this brand new series called “Roommates, Bad Dates and Great Mates”. Tonight we are going to dive in and look straight on the topic of sex and what the Bible means when it says, “it was good”. And we live in a sex saturated society, as you have probably noticed. And that three-letter word “sex” is probably the most misunderstood word in our society. Yet, we talk about it all the time. I mean TV addresses the subject of sex on a regular basis. There are entire television shows and series that are based around this issue of sex. The movies are based on sex. Magazines feature sex on the front cover, whether they are trying to sell to the guys, or trying to sell to the ladies. The internet is absolutely covered with sex. As a matter of fact, the porn industry recently promoted that their revenue is bigger than the combined revenue of all professional football, baseball and basketball franchises. It’s a big industry. Economically speaking, this is a $20 billion a year industry and it drives much of our economy. And sex is discussed everywhere. Psychologically, we are always talking about the effects of sex. Young and old have had both negative and positive experiences from sex. And the psychology of sex is used to sell everything. Whether its selling light beer or selling pharmaceuticals, it’s everywhere in our society. Sociologically, sex is a driving force. It creates a lot of pressure. It pushes young teens to engage in oral sex. It causes adults to pursue prostitution and escort services. It drives singles toward pre-marital sex. And then in the political world, sex is always a factor and sex has the potential to make and break careers. Sex is discussed in our schools, our doctor’s offices, our public arenas and our private gatherings. It’s talked about everywhere, but right here. Sex is rarely discussed in church. We tend to sweep it over in the corner. Instead, we let society to decide what is right and wrong about sex. You see there is a lot of talk about sex, but there is very little truth about sex. There is an abundance of discussion about sex, but there is an absence of truth when it comes to sex. In the series that we are beginning tonight is about the truth. Discovering the truth about what God says regarding relationships. The truth of what God says about sex and marriage, and dating, and temptation, and purity. And like all things, if we are to find this truth, we have to go to the Scripture. We have to go to the Bible, God’s source of truth. And tonight, that’s what we are going to do as we talk about sex and “it was good”. And fortunately for us, the Bible is very frank about sex. There is not a prudish note in the entire Scripture from Genesis to Revelation. As a matter of fact, there is a whole book in the Bible called the Song of Solomon that celebrates the sensuality of erotic love. And the Bible reflects the attitude that you would expect by the person who created sex. And God, better than anyone else understands what sex means, and what His invention of it does